What is your favourite Boxing memory?

there were so many I cannot pick one. Maybe when Hearns beat Roldan. He sort of made it back from the Hagler loss and beat Roldan for 4 titles with Ray and Marvin watching in 1987. Roldan was not a Leonard or Hagler, but he was solid and Tommy won.

 

I was ringside for that fight. Sitting right next to Hank Goldberg (ESPN), and across the aisle from Charlie Sheen. It was a fun night. And, in reality, it was the only Tyson comeback fight where he actually looked good.

 

Many live at fight memories.

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I had a lot of great boxing memories. But, for pure atmosphere/excitement: Trinidad-Joppy at MSG, Tyson-Holyfield I at MGM, Hatton-Tszyu at MEN, and Moorer-Cooper at Taj Mahal were a few of my favorite fights where I was there live.

 

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Well mate, we will nether know but you could have sat next to me !! I also went there with a few good friends, first we had a great old time down Hackney Road chatting up all the birds, then on to a drinking club on Tottenham Court Road, then had a Chinese, then off to the Cinema. Best days of my life.

 

I was at Hatton-Tszyu too. The best crowd I ever experienced alongside Trinidad-Mayorga.

 

I am the same age, we must share some memory's some time.

 

Both were totally out of control. I loved it. The Brits are always great at fights, but, that Hatton -Tszyu fight was on another level. Same with Trinidad-Joppy. The pro-Trinidad crowd was so pumped up that you would have thought that Joppy was the one from another country. I was there with a Wall Street buddy who got us seats in a luxury box. When I saw how incredible the energy was in the cheap seats, I waded down into the chaos (without a seat) to enjoy the atmosphere properly. In the pandemonium, nobody even considered sitting down, and nobody bothered to check if I even had a ticket for that section. Great performance by Trinidad, and a really fun ****ing night!

 

Only 67? I'd assumed you were some ancient Greek spirit or something.

I don't know why but I feel like you've let me down.

 

My favorite boxing memories are the great times and camaraderie I've had spending fight weekends with close friends in New York or Vegas over the years. The hours spent drinking and talking boxing beforehand, the feeling of sitting in a well-lit but mostly empty arena watching the prelims, the electricity and spectacle of the main events, saying what's up to boxers and other fight people in attendance, and occasionally getting pictures with some after the fight. The actual fights themselves usually only matter indirectly.

 

Definitely. The last boxing trip I took with my friends was Lomachenko-Linares. Luckily, there’s a decent amount of LA fights so often don’t have to travel but something special about taking a trip to a place like Vegas or NYC for a big fight.

 

I'll second Hatton-Tszyu, it was mental and glorious apart from all the window licking City fans. Calzaghe-Lacy was a great atmosphere too at the MEN, my mate called Gordon Ramsay a c#nt and a thirty stone Scottish bloke with no t-shirt on went "Aye Ramsay, this wee lads right, yer a massive c#nt because I say so".

Meeting Tyson and Barrera at Hatton-Lazcano was cool, they were both bang on.

I miss exchanging messages with Emile Griffith on facebook, his son did it for him and it was always a joy.

Watching the first Benn-Eubank fight on telly with my Grandad is one of my earlier boxing memories. That and watching old stuff of Louis, Ali, Pep, Robinson, Duran with him I was little and probably too young. Him taking me to meet Billy Thompson and Bruce Woodcock. Us both laughing when Barrera smacked Hamed's head into the turnbuckle. Going with him to an evening with Steve Collins and chatting to Collins at the bar for an age and disagreeing with him that he beat Kalambay (I let him have Eubank and Reggie Johnson).